In New York, all employees in the private sector must be vaccinated
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A woman inquires about registering for the Covid-19 vaccination in the Sunset Park neighborhood of New York City, April 7, 2021. © Mark Lennihan / AP
By: Juliette Pietraszewski
2 min
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After medical staff, city employees, teachers ... All private sector employees must now be vaccinated, a rule that comes into force today (Monday, December 27, 2021). This decision by Mayor Bill de Blasio is presented by the town hall as a necessity to deal with the new wave of contaminations. Violators are exposed to a fine of 1000 dollars.
Loubna Anaki
, our correspondent, explains to us in her report the stakes of this new rule. Our journalist,
Christophe Paget
, returns to the subject in his press review. "
The pandemic has created two years of collective trauma
" headlines the
Washington Post
, who believes that with the pandemic, many Americans are on the verge of breaking down.
In Haiti, the country's seismic activity analyzed by a geologist
The seismic activity has been particularly intense in recent days in the South, near the town of
Jérémie
, but also in the bay of Port au Prince.
On August 14, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake killed more than two thousand people.
The 2010 earthquake also remains a trauma for the population.
Faced with the anguish of reliving such a drama, the scientific community is working.
Our correspondent in Haiti,
Amélie Baron
questions geologist
Steve Symithe
in an interview.
The specter of the crisis of December 2001 in Argentina
Twenty years ago, Argentina was going through an
economic, political and social crisis
that marked memories.
In the space of a few days, the country is rocked by a general strike, demonstrations are harshly repressed, the government resigns, and a default then causes a collapse of the economy.
Twenty years after this historic episode, Argentina has poverty and inflation rates reminiscent of 2001. The country is once again under the threat of default.
A file from our correspondent
Théo Conscience
.
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